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StudiVZ

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Studivz.net is very similar to Facebook, but primarily focuses on the German speaking market. The company was sold to Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a German publishing group, for €85 million in January 2007.

Other investors of Studivz include the Samwer brothers, founders of ringtone company Jamba (sold for $270M) and Alando (sold to eBay for $43M in 1999).

As of July 2008, StudiVZ has 9 million active Users in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. The Users are on three Socialnetworks: StudiVZ (4.1M Users) SchülerVZ (4.9M Users) and MeinVZ (1.8M Users)

Milestones

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• StudiVZ — Sued by Facebook for intellectual property infringement and accused of accused of running a “knock-off” of the social networking website. (7/18/08)
  Posted 7/20/08 at 11:47am
• StudiVZ — Start of MeinVZ (2/28/08)
  Posted 7/20/08 at 1:08pm
• StudiVZ — StudiVZ started SchülerVZ, a Socialnetwork for Highschool Students. (2/21/07)
  Posted 7/20/08 at 1:06pm
• StudiVZ — Acquired by investor Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH, a German publishing group, for €100 million (1/3/07)
  Posted 7/20/08 at 11:48am
• Marcus Riecke, CEO added.
  Posted 7/20/08 at 12:59pm
• Taylor Mingos, Marketing added.
  Posted 10/19/08 at 9:16pm
• Oliver Skopec, Head of SchülerVZ added.
  Posted 7/20/08 at 12:59pm
• Ehssan Dariani, Founder added.
  Posted 7/20/08 at 12:59pm
• Markus Berger-de León, CEO added.
  Posted 5/25/09 at 1:49pm
• Michael Brehm, COO added.
  Posted 7/19/08 at 1:14am
• Dennis Bemmann, Founder and CTO added.
  Posted 7/19/08 at 1:14am
• Tobias Walter, VP International Markets added.
  Posted 4/13/08 at 10:37am
• Received in Seed funding.
  Posted 3/7/09 at 9:53am
• Clemens Riedl, CEO added.
  Posted 5/25/09 at 1:49pm
• Thomas Baum, CFO added.
  Posted 5/25/09 at 1:49pm
• Malte Cherdron, COO added.
  Posted 5/25/09 at 1:49pm
• Jodok Batlogg, CTO added.
  Posted 5/25/09 at 1:49pm

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Sources

1. Wikipedia (de.wikipedia.org) [edit]
2. techcrunch.com [edit]
3. techcrunch.com [edit]
4. studiVZ (static.pe.schuelervz.net) [edit]
5. mehrblog.net (mehrblog.net) [edit]